Alan Dershowitz Claims Obama Would Only Come To His 75th Birthday Party On Martha’s Vineyard — If He Didn’t Invite Geraldo Rivera
- Attorney Alan Dershowitz told Charlie Kirk on Monday he was being shunned for defending former President Donald Trump
- He said that ‘people have lost all sense of decency when it comes to having different points of view’ and characterized liberals as particularly bad
- Dershowitz then recalled how President Barack Obama refused to come to his birthday ten years ago because Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera was invited
Attorney Alan Dershowitz revealed Monday that President Barack Obama would only attend his 75th birthday if he rejected Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera.
Dershowitz, who represented President Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial, appeared on The Charlie Kirk Show and talked about how he’s been treated by liberal friends for continuing to side with the former president.
He told the conservative Kirk that his defense of Trump “has cost me a lot,” arguing that “people have lost all sense of decency when it comes to having different points of view,” and characterized the left as particularly narrow-minded.
Dershowitz said that for his 75th birthday in 2013, “President Obama was invited and he said he would come, but when he heard Geraldo Rivera was also invited, his office basically said, unless you don’t invite Geraldo Rivera, I’m not coming.” ‘
“And I am a loyal man, I told the President of the United States no, Geraldo Rivera is coming, you can stay away, and the President of the United States stayed away from my 75th birthday because I invited Geraldo Rivera,” Dershowitz recalled .
Lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who appeared on Monday’s Charlie Kirk show, said President Barack Obama refused to attend his 75th birthday 10 years ago because he had invited Fox News Channel’s Geraldo Rivera
The White House had asked Alan Dershowitz not to invite Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera (left) if the lawyer wanted President Barack Obama (right) to attend his 75th birthday in 2013
The former attorney for OJ Simpson and Harvey Weinstein added that he “would do that any day of the week.”
“I believe in loyalty. I believe in friendships. I don’t agree with Geraldo on everything, but he’s my friend, so of course I invited him to my 75th birthday and I’m inviting him to my 85th birthday,” Dershowitz continued.
The lawyer will turn 85 on September 1.
Like the Obamas, Dershowitz is a regular on Martha’s Vineyard, but talked about how he’s been shunned lately.
“My former friends from the radical left, one of them was walking on the beach yesterday and he saw me coming and he took a sharp right turn, went to the top of the dunes, I thought he was going to fall off to even hit me — and so it is today,” Dershowitz said.
‘And the library denounced me, my synagogue denounced me. The community center has canceled me. The book show on Martha’s Vineyard – I’m probably the bestselling author on Martha’s Vineyard and they canceled me,” he continued.
“It’s just that they don’t want to hear opposing views — those aren’t liberals — it’s called progressive, but it’s regressive,” the lawyer added.
At another point in the show, Dershowitz told Kirk that he still considers himself a liberal.
He noted that he is reasonably in favor of gay rights, abortion, gun control and environmental protection.
But he still believed Trump got a raw deal.
Dershowitz insisted that all legal proceedings against the former president be suspended until after the 2024 presidential election.
“There should be no trial during the elections. That is real — whether intentional or not — election interference,” Dershowitz argued.